"The police" is neither one person nor a hivemind.
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Well, first you have the inherent dissonance in the discourse employed by such groups, in which they *state* they are anti-establishment, may even *believe* they're anti-establishment, but *act* in ways that are very much pro-establishment (such logical dissonance isn't anything new, by the way; you'll notice it plays a huge role in Ur-Fascistic propaganda, which states that somehow the Ur-Fascist group is intrinsecally stronger and superior to their enemies BUT ALSO oppressed by them and must thus fight back at all costs).
Secondly, you have to consider that a lot of the same people who would join those Far Right groups actually went on to join the police (for instance, both the DHS and the FBI have led investigations which concluded there were strong, active links between white supremacist groups and the police). Which only makes sense, really - law enforcement in the US has a long history of being closely tied to controlling Native Americans and rebellious slaves.
Even aside from all that, though, we'd only have to see the news from the last few months to see how the police is not-so-subtly sympathetic to those groups.
There's also something of a revolving door there. Ex-military and retired law enforcement are considered desirable recruits to these movements because of their training, experience, connections, and insider knowledge. Much of the militia movement itself was founded by the same. Likewise, racial profiling practices and training are hardly undocumented within law enforcement at this point, even when dealing with PoC officers. Likewise the tendency for veterans of foreign "Adventures," to have a less than glowing opinion of the ethnicities that dominated their enemies.
There's really just a strong tendency to see the Federal Government as corrupt and authoritarian, while still tending towards being these things.
Right wingers and any armed forces are often in bed with each other literally anywhere on the world map, with some exceptions (communist countries, whose governments are far more right wing than they'd like to admit publicly).
In any event, a Civil War would look significantly less like the previous one and more like the one we had in Spain half a century+ ago: anything with a weapon will join forces and those in the opposing side (urbanites, left wingers) are going to start regretting not stocking up.
Never mind how foolish it would be to start a war over something more likely to be resolved with a simple coup/autocoup/shadow coup.
There's more truth to this than I'd care to admit.
I'm pretty sure his son advocated for protecting that... iirc there's a pic of Jr. holding a fat salmon.
Also, that asbestos thing is old. It's 2018, and was apparently stopped in 2019, unless I missed something.
https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wi...icals-67025256
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I'm sure he'll get it in the second term tho
Bust out the onions. It's revolution time.
Guess I'll read it later XD
Having read it, that's actually pretty cool.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...already-there/
seems russia already intervening in belarus. but in a sealth mode fashion. luke is ''importing'' russians to replace protesting workers. not only that, but he's hiring russians as police secretly, dude officialy won't resign unless he's dead. basically another way of saying he wants to be a ''president for life'', and seems to be plotting a mass crackdown soon, as he refused any ''dialogue with the eu'', and said that the police will be rewarded for every protest it shuts down.
well, that's one way to go as the ''last dictator'' of europe.
So it turns out that the 17 year old kid who went on a shooting rampage at a BLM protest in Wisconsin was a cop fanboy and militia member. As the protest was over a white cop shooting a black suspect in the back repeatedly, this is not a particularly good sign.
I'm not sure if I find it hilarious or scary that so many people under the "Move to China" tag on Twitter seem to think that it's actually better under a communist dictatorship.
I would hope that tag is meant as an ironic gesture.
All games that try to shove good and evil down your throat: https://www.local10.com/news/2019/01...amed-kindness/
One more accomplishment for Florida Man.